The strength of this population is precisely that it can tolerate disagreements…— Brockman, 1991

The third culture referred to the people of diverse backgrounds who are outside of their passport country and relating their societies to each other; they formed an unique behavior patterns that necessarily were created, shared and learned1 in the process of constant reiteration. This interestingly created a sense of fluid and performative identity that was arbitrary in nature. What this also means is that these people innately understand a way of relating to other people not as a single categorical assumption, but fellow complex human whose history will never be completely known and that it was ok, and that spaces can be created where anyone may be as they are equally based on needs and not on expectations.

A new generation of Culture 3.0 is at hand, and they have come across language and cultural ambiguity to thrive in mixed cultural settings precisely because they innately tolerate differences2. Our previous ways of seeing and being — a very one-sided and self-preserving angle — really isn’t working. All the recent disputes and violent tragedies indicate that we are deteriorating back into a fight or flight animal instinct instead of trying to understand each other. I believe that by imagining a new and mixed point of view we can truly have an equal dialogue across the board. We need to understand each other, to thrive and create together for a future that desperately need collective actions to solve planet’s greatest threats and even to create technological leap for our greatest desires as human beings.


1. Useems, Donoghue 1963,169.
2. Brockman, 1991.


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